Word: nakedness
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The images that work best are the ones where Kitaj spins a web of congruent allusion without ever getting too literal, where the art-history and real-history footnotes balance and bear one another out. A remarkable one is If Not, Not, 1975-76, his meditation on T.S. Eliot'...
The reputations of Nell Gwyn, Marie Antoinette and Lady Diana prove it: courtesans and consorts can lodge in legend as securely as the men they serve. They dress the naked throne of power with their glamour, sex, humanity; they provide a public-relations link between master and mass. They need...
Reinhart is "housefather" in Winona's luxury apartment, sipping a vermouth cassis-he has forsaken his customary tumblers of bourbon-and garnering a local reputation for the classical cuisine. Hired by high-powered Grace Greenwood to demonstrate gourmet-food preparation in supermarkets, he is shocked to discover that the...
The opening round concerns the First Amendment rights of the director of The Naked Nyphomaniac, an "educational documentary," the defendant claims, about the sad life of Lois LaRue, "the woman who just couldn't get enough." Predictably--as is everything else in First Monday-- Justice Loomis upholds the conservative cause...
This season in Adair County has been a ballet of breathtaking intricacy, timing and beauty. In late May and early June, when the plowed land lay naked and vulnerable, there were no pelting rains to rip out seed and carry off precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle...